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Dr. Elias Adam Zerhouni, M.D has been the President of Global Research and Development at Sanofi since January 2011. Dr. Zerhouni serves as a Consultant. He serves as Senior Advisor of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He served as Managing Director and President of Global R&D Medicines & Vaccines of Sanofi-aventis (now Sanof). He served as a Principal Investigator on three NIH grants and Co-investigator on two others. He served as a Consultant to the World ... Health Organization since 1988. He served as a Consultant to the White House under President Ronald Reagan since 1985. He helped to establish, Surgi-Vision, Inc. His research accomplishments includes developing computed tomography densitometry techniques. He serves as Emeritus Public Trustee at Mayo Clinic Health System New Prague and Mayo Clinic (formerly known as Mayo Clinic Rochester). He has been a Director of Danaher Corp. since 2009. He serves as a Director at MayoClinic.com. and Sports Club Stockholm. He serves as Member of National Advisory Council at National Institute On Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA). Dr. Zerhouni served as Director of Actelion Ltd since April 24, 2009. He served as a Director of National Institutes of Health from May 20, 2002 to October 31, 2008, where he leaded the nation's medical research agency and is responsible for the NIH's 27 Institutes and Centers with more than 18,000 employees. He served as a Director of Mayo Clinic. He has been a Member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine since 2000. He has been a Member of the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors since 1998. He serves on multiple boards, such as the Lasker Foundation, the Mayo Clinic, Research America Board and the Board of the King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology. He is a Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore). He served as an Executive Vice Dean, Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and President of the Faculty Association at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Zerhouni served as Executive Vice Dean and Vice Dean for Research at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Zerhouni served as the Chairman of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he established with community radiologists a company specializing in the delivery of outpatient, high-tech imaging services. From 1978 to 2002, Dr. Zerhouni held various academic appointments at The John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He served as a Martin Donner Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Zerhouni served as an Assistant Professor of Johns Hopkins since 1979 and also served as its Associate Professor since 1985. From 1981 to 1985, he served in the Department of Radiology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and its affiliated DePaul Hospital. Dr. Zerhouni served as a Director of the MRI division at Johns Hopkins since 1988 and also served as its Professor since 1992. He led a successful effort to establish the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins. He developed a method of high resolution CT for both anatomic and physiologic studies of the lungs. He also pioneered a way of assessing heart function via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He is Senior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a distinguished scientist with more than 212 publications. He has authored or co-authored 157 publications and 11 book chapters. Dr. Zerhouni earned his Medical Degree at the University of Algiers School of Medicine in 1975. He completed his Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Johns Hopkins in 1978 as Chief Resident.

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